Three firings and a fourth departure shake up OpenAI's safety team
OpenAI has parted ways with three researchers who allegedly leaked confidential information to an outside AI safety organization, according to the Wall Street Journal. The article…
Kazakhstan to present its vision for international AI regulation at G20 - Qazinform
Kazakhstan to present its vision for international AI regulation at G20 Qazinform
The Download: a biological de-aging contest and why LLMs don’t reason
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. A new contest pits competitors against ea…
AI beats licensed accountants on speed and accuracy, but still can't close the books without supervision
According to a Mercor study, current AI models now outperform licensed CPAs on structured accounting tasks in both speed and accuracy. Eighteen months ago, they still lagged far b…
Chinese hackers impersonate leading AI figures to harvest credentials - IT Pro
Chinese hackers impersonate leading AI figures to harvest credentials IT Pro
Why Dario Amodei needs AI regulation for Anthropic to stay on top - Washington Examiner
Why Dario Amodei needs AI regulation for Anthropic to stay on top Washington Examiner
Snapchat and the Cornell University case; Trump’s AI regulation pledge: Safety in tech culture takes center stage - prweek.com
Snapchat and the Cornell University case; Trump’s AI regulation pledge: Safety in tech culture takes center stage prweek.com
The Social Skinny: Snapchat and the Cornell University case; Trump’s AI regulation pledge: Safety in tech culture takes center stage - Campaign US
The Social Skinny: Snapchat and the Cornell University case; Trump’s AI regulation pledge: Safety in tech culture takes center stage Campaign US
China-Linked Hackers Posed as US AI Policy Experts - Technology Org
China-Linked Hackers Posed as US AI Policy Experts Technology Org
Microsoft AI releases new transcription and text-to-speech models for voice agents
Microsoft AI has released MAI-Transcribe-2-Streaming, a new model for real-time transcription. The article Microsoft AI releases new transcription and text-to-speech models for vo…
Businesses are using more AI and paying less for it, Ramp AI Index shows
US companies are spending less on AI, according to the latest Ramp AI Index from Ramp economist Ara Kharazian. The article Businesses are using more AI and paying less for it, Ram…
A new contest pits competitors against each other in a race to biological youth
This week, I officially signed up for an unusual competition. One that rewards competitors for getting younger. I recently turned 40, and I don’t need reminding that both time and…
The little known Democrat with big influence over AI policy - Politico
The little known Democrat with big influence over AI policy Politico
Don’t be fooled—LLMs don’t reason
On an afternoon in Seoul in March 2016, I watched a program I helped build put a stone on the fifth line of a Go board in what looked like a gift to its human opponent. Move 37 in…
Black Forest Labs launches Flux 3 Image with multi-step editing that leaves the rest of your picture alone
Black Forest Labs has released Flux 3 Image, the image side of its Flux 3 model family. It supports multi-step edits without changing other parts of the image, lets users compose …
AWS Strands Labs Releases Strands Decider 2B: An Open Source Decision Model That Picks Options in About 115 ms
AWS's Strands Agents team released Strands Decider 2B, an Apache-2.0 decision model built on Qwen3.5-2B-Base. It returns choices, yes/no probabilities and scores with calibrated c…
Calls for AI regulation continue to grow, especially as the general election nears - 12News
Calls for AI regulation continue to grow, especially as the general election nears 12News
Five takeaways from congressional debate: Wiener, Chan clash over AI regulation - The San Francisco Standard
Five takeaways from congressional debate: Wiener, Chan clash over AI regulation The San Francisco Standard
China-aligned TA419 targets US AI policy experts in phishing campaigns - CRN Asia
China-aligned TA419 targets US AI policy experts in phishing campaigns CRN Asia
S.F. House candidates spar over their housing records, AI regulation in Chronicle-KQED debate - yahoo.com
S.F. House candidates spar over their housing records, AI regulation in Chronicle-KQED debate yahoo.com
S.F. House candidates spar over their housing records, AI regulation in Chronicle-KQED debate - San Francisco Chronicle
S.F. House candidates spar over their housing records, AI regulation in Chronicle-KQED debate San Francisco Chronicle
AI agents keep access to company data after their work is done - Help Net Security
AI agents keep access to company data after their work is done Help Net Security
University of Cambridge - Policymakers in Canada must give teachers a stronger voice on AI policy in schools, new Cambridge report recommends - educationnewscanada.com
University of Cambridge - Policymakers in Canada must give teachers a stronger voice on AI policy in schools, new Cambridge report recommends educationnewscanada.com
Cloudflare Releases Clef and Clef-flash: Open-Weight Decision Models That Return Typed Probabilities Instead of Text
Cloudflare has released Clef (27B) and Clef-flash (9B), open-weight decision models that return typed probabilities instead of text. They are Jev-API compatible, accept images, an…